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Definition: LINNE |
LINNENoun1. Flax. See Linen. |
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Literature | Linne (The Heir of). The Lord of Linne was a great spendthrift, "who wasted his substance in riotous living." Having spent all, he sold his estates to John o' the Scales, his steward, reserving to himself only a "poor and lonesome lodge in a lonely glen." When he had squandered away the money received for his estates, and found that no one would lend or give him more, he retired to the lodge in the glen, where he found a rope with a running noose dangling over his head. He put the rope round his neck and sprang aloft, when lo! the ceiling burst in twain, and he fell to the ground. When he came to himself he espied two chests of beaten gold, and a third full of white money, and over them was written, "Once more, my son, I set thee clear; amend thy life, or a rope at last must end it." The heir of Linne now returned to his old hall, where he asked his quondam steward for the loan of forty pence; this was refused him. One of the guests proffered the loan, and told John o' the Scales he ought to have lent it, as he had bought the estate cheap enough. "Cheap call you it?" exclaimed John; "why, he shall have it back for 100 marks less." "Done," said the heir of Linne, and counted out the money. He thus recovered his estates, and made the kind guest his forester. (Percy: Reliques, series ii. book 2.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: LINNE |
| English words defined with "LINNE": Carl von Linne ♦ Karl Linne. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LINNE": Dunlin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LINNE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Scottish (a pool, arm of the sea, gulf, linn, pond, pool), Swedish (chemise, linen). |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "LINNE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Linne | Last name | 200 | 35,339 |
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Expressions using "LINNE": Carl von Linne ♦ Karl Linne. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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carl von linne | 13 |
carl linne | 12 |
linne | 3 |
jean linne | 3 |
karl linne | 2 |
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Words beginning with "LINNE": linnet, linnets. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: linen. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: lien, line, linn, nine. | |
-2 letters: inn, lei, lie, lin, nil. | |
-3 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: linden, linens, lineny, linnet, online. | |
+2 letters: alanine, aneling, aniline, annelid, eanling, encinal, enliven, inanely, incline, innerly, innless, leaning, lending, lenient, lensing, leonine, lindane, lindens, lineman, linemen, linkmen, linnets, melanin, nonlife, nuclein, nunlike, pinnule, unlined. | |
+3 letters: alanines, aliening, angeling, anilines, annelids, benignly, biennale, biennial, binnacle, blending, blennies, buntline, cleaning, dentinal, eanlings, eloining, enabling, enisling, enkindle, enlacing, enlivens, ensiling, flensing, gantline, gentling, gleaning, inclined, incliner, inclines, indolent, induline, infernal, influent, inlander, innately, insanely, insolent, intently, internal, julienne, kneeling, knelling, ladening, landline, landmine, lanoline, latening, leanings, learning, lenience, leniency, lenition, lichenin, likening, limonene, lindanes, linesman, linesmen, linguine, liniment, linksmen, livening, longeing, longline, mainline, melanian, melanins, monellin, neckline, needling, nestling, nettling, ninefold, nonelite, nonideal, nonlives, nontitle, nucleins, paneling, pineland, pinnacle, pinnulae, pinnules, relining, sentinel, snelling, solanine, syncline, ungenial, unlinked, unmingle, unnailed, unsilent, weanling, winnable, yeanling. | |
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